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Karen Ashmore's Reviews > To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (An Essential Guide for Writers)
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A professor at Columbia, Lopate cites his personal experience and his decades of reviewing student work to illustrate his themes in the craft of literary nonfiction. He concentrates on personal essays and memoirs, offers some useful tips, but all were well-worn elements. He has a tendency to keep citing the works of dead white men, which is probably the literary group that holds my least interest. Meh.
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Apr 21, 2020 02:03AM
I do not know where the disdain for ’dead white men’ comes from, but my guess would be a place of fear of the greatness of these writers. Discrediting someone based on sex, colour and age is always wrong, but somehow is always tolerated if they happen to be white men. Most importantly, however, they must be dead and lack the capacity to defend themselves.
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@Anton it’s because for so long, those were the only voices that were considered to matter. The disdain (probably; I’m assuming here) comes from those being the only voices referenced or amplified, not disdain for the individual work or writers themselves. And certainly not a “fear of the greatness” of the dead white men.
